Oyeen and Gloyeen rather than O-in and Glo-in is what he's probably referring to, IMO. //
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...I'd say almost every name is probably more or less "mispronounced".

It's really only a matter of how hard you are with the "rules". And, if you look through Tolkien's notes on pronounciation, Gandalf should be pronounced Gandalv. Which would probably sound silly to most of us.

I'm gonna be a bit meddlesome, and say if I'd try to pronounce them "correctly" (based upon my Swedish and rather limited knowledge of other Scandinavic languages and Old Norse) I'd say:

Thórin (pretty much as it's pronounced everywhere) Baalinn (not the american version "Baylin") Dwaalinn (or possibly even Dvaalin) Feelee (emphasis on the first I) Keelee (same) Dó-ri (to get the "Do" from, for example, "Dovahkiin") Nó-ri (same) Ó-ri (same) Ó-in (A bit of Eeyore-touch on that one) Gló-in (same) Beefúrr (And not Biff-urr) Bófúrr (Not Bowfur) Bómmbúrr (pretty much as they pronounce it, but with rolling r:s and heavier u-sound - just as with his brother and cousin)

I feel so annoying right now. But I've been thinking a lot on this, and it feels really good to just get it out. I may be so wrong on this. Just a guess as good as any, I hope =)

The rules for pronouncing the Eddaic names are quite different from those for pronouncing Elvish names.

But didn’t Tolkien himself voice the final consonant in Gandalf, making it come out with a v sound? Sounds like it to me on the recordings.

Without using IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) spellings, it is next to impossible to tell what people mean. But those are really tough to enter here, requiring a lot of mouse pasting.

…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarﬁn and his house.